Past research projects

CAMP - The Carceral Mobilities Project

The recent refugee crisis in Europe has demonstrated both the widespread use of encampments when dealing with influxes of migrants and asylum seekers and the ways in which migrants and asylum seekers navigate this encampment terrain.

PI: Simon Turner

Where to build, when to live? Practical challenges with housing ukrainian refugees in danish municipalities

This small project, funded by the Crown Princess Mary Center, examines key challenges experienced by actors in the reception and housing of Ukrainian refugees in three Danish municipalities.

PI: Zachary Whyte

Helping Hands: Research network on the everyday border work of European citizens

The interdisciplinary research network gathers researchers from 6 different countries. Through a selection of six European locales, the network will explore the different ways of doing solidarity work in European everyday life, in support of refugees coming to Europe.  
PI: Marie Sandberg

Cross-border healthcare among Turkish immigrants in Denmark with particular focus on the elderly

This project at the SAXO-institute explores healthcare practices among elderly Turkish immigrants in Denmark. 

PI: Anne Leonora Blaakilde

RESPOND - Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration In Europe and Beyond

This EU HORIZON 2020 RESEARCH PROJECT is organized around 11 work packages, where one is located at MCPIC.
PI: Professor Nils Holtug

Migration, State and Pedagogy: Migration as prism for pedagogical studies of state formation processes

Project at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication with the overall aim of  developing new fields of study for educational research that can capture the intersections and dynamics between issues/objects of welfare work, migration and state (trans)formation processes across different national, regional, local and institutional settings and contexts.
PI: Bolette Moldenhawer

Professional interventions as a state-crafting grammar addressing "the immigrant"

Collective research project at Department of Media, Cognition and Communication exploring professional interventions in today’s state practices and how the transformation in professional interventions is related to historical processes of state transformation. 
PI: Bolette Moldenhawer

Talking Neolithic - Recovering the Language of the First European Farmers

Forskningsprojekt finansieret af bevillinger fra Det Frie Forskningsråd | Kultur og Kommunikation og Det Frie Forskningsråds Sapere Aude karriereprogram DFF-Ung Eliteforsker 2012.

PI: Postdoc Guus Kroonen

The Politics of Social Cohesion

The aim of the current project is to improve our understanding of politics of social cohesion, including their (underlying) values and effects on social cohesion, with particular attention to trust and solidarity.
PI: Professor Nils Holtug

Remote Relocations: Work, Precarity and the Inclusion of Newcomers on Lolland

This project explores how the everyday inclusion of newcomers in a Danish rural area is shaped by precarities of work and place.
PI: Birgitte Romme Larsen

Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania

Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (EveryHumanTZ) is a joint research project being conducted by researchers from public Universities in Denmark and Tanzania aiming to explore and understand the practices of everyday humanitarianism and the attitudes that ground them.
PI: Lisa Ann Richey

INTERPRETING: Sociolinguistic perspectives on challenges in interpreting encounters in the Danish public sector

The aim is to achieve insight into linguistic and cultural aspects of interpreter-mediated encounters
PI: Martha Sif Karrebæk

DIGINAUTS – migrants' digital practices in and of the European border regime

The aim of DIGINAUTS is to examine how migrants’ widespread, varied and innovative digital practices remake migration and potentially create networks of solidarity as migrants navigate through the European border regime.
PI: Martin Bak Jørgensen